Introduction into the theory of intercultural communication.The main purpose of this book is to help teachers working with foreign students to understand their mentality. It can also be very useful for translators, tour guides and other people who have to deal with foreigners.It is a lecture course on how people from different countries can avoid conflicts while interacting with each other. The book offers 7 lectures named: a human being and the world, a human being in interaction with other human beings, a human being in the perception of others, a human being and the culture, a human being and the language, a human being perceiving the world, a human being in the interaction with other cultures. At the beginning of every lecture there are several key notions explained and classified, (e.g. communication, interaction, communicative acting, verbal interaction and non verbal interaction, discourse, communicative models, interpretation, stereotypes, empathy, language, communicative person, culture etc). At the end of each chapter there are questions to check comprehension.This is not a teaching book in the true meaning of the word, but rather an attempt to look at the well-known scientific terms from a different angle.